The Lazarus Corporation

Shadows of the Hinterlandscape

Selling artwork is always difficult, especially in the UK for some reason. People are reluctant to buy artwork - maybe they think it’s expensive or that you need to be an expert in the “art world” before buying art? Neither of these are true, but these attitudes seem prevalent.

I could sit and moan about this, but I decided to try something different. Taking inspiration from some of the high-quality collectable CD and DVD box sets I’ve treated myself to over the years, frequently full of various interesting extras and other bits & pieces, I wondered whether the same format would work for visual artwork.

Shadows of the Hinterlandscape is a box set collection of some of my previously published artwork and some which hasn’t been published before. The box set is strictly limited to 20 hand-numbered copies and contains:

Photographs taken at the Edge of the Wood at Midnight - a set of 4 digital photographic prints that are available on my online shop separate to this box set, each 148mm × 210mm, all signed on reverse,

The Moss Guardian (through a glass, darkly) - a new digital photographic print, 148mm × 210mm, signed on reverse,

The Procession - a new digital photographic print of a charcoal drawing, 148mm × 210mm, signed on reverse,

Postcards: Drawings, 2014 - a set of 4 postcards that are available on my online shop separate to this box set, each 105mm × 148mm,

Medea Postcards - a set of 5 postcards that are available on my online shop separate to this box set, each 105mm × 148.5mm,

Also included is a Come Unto the Corn bookmark, which I decided to get printed as a piece of ephemera (I have a curiosity for pieces of ephemera).

This embarrassment of riches is all contained within the hand-labelled and -numbered box, wrapped in black tissue paper and sealed with sealing wax (that I picked up a few years ago on a trip to Slovenia). All this for £25 (excluding shipping).

It’s started to sell well, so I might well be looking at doing more (different) limited edition box sets in the future, and I might also be mining the music and cinematic industries for other ways of selling artwork.